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Had a great time at @xoruby.com Montreal yesterday! Good presentations and conversations, and when I got home I still got to read my son a bedtime story 😄 (he was doing his best to delay things 🙈)

Montréal we're bringing you a conference with no flights, no hotel and no four-figure ticket. XO Ruby Montréal, this Sat Oct 17: 8 talks, one track, $138CAD, and lunch money in your pocket. Lineup includes a former Rails core member and the creator of Thin. xoruby.com/event/montreal

Just found out that a lot of people don‘t know that you can use a ”C7 figure‑8 power cord“ with any Apple power adapter in case you forgot your travel adapter. Way cheaper to get one of those usually than a full travel adapter. #travelhacks

Excited to share I'm speaking at @xoruby.com on October 17th. Hope to see you there! www.xoruby.com/event/montre...

Bonjour, Ruby. 🇨🇦 XORuby comes to Montréal Oct 17, 2026. It's a single-track conf, top Ruby speakers, $100 ticket, zero travel needed. Details: www.xoruby.com/event/montre... #XORuby

I've been at Thatch for a bit over four years now and excited I can finally tell my mom I work at a 'real' company 😁 thatch.com/blog/thatch-...

Bonjour Montréal 👋 We're coming to town this October 17! Who should speak at the conference? We’re looking for new voices. Maybe someone who dives into a deep part of a domain that Ruby helped solve, someone who has a story to tell that’ll make us think about our AI age, ...

Three cities, three Saturdays, and a bunch of folks making it happen! Toronto - Oct 3: Clio.com, @fullscriptdev.bsky.social, Phoenix.ca, Toronto Ruby NYC - Oct 10: Chime.com, WyeWorks.com, Montréal - Oct 17: Fullscript.com Leg Sponsors: @dnsimple.com, Typesense.com, @confreaks.bsky.social

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

french if it had a compiler

My RBQ Conf talk recording is up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtrm... - completely missed it while on vacation last week.

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Gave a talk today at #PGData2026 on #Postgres plan management and monitoring. Some exciting changes coming to Postgres 19, and pg_stat_plans (plan statistics) now supports the new release. Full slides from the talk: resources.pganalyze.com/pganalyze_PG...

Hello Rubyist. Working hard all day is great, but maybe it's time to cool down. New in RubyGems/Bundler 4.0.13: blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/c...

Canadians: there's a Parliament petition up to withdraw the surveillance bill, C-22. It's sponsored by NDP MP Jenny Kwan. Please consider signing, but also make sure to call your MP and tell them why you oppose it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Nice stuff in last Git github.blog/open-source/...

Built something new this morning and am getting quizzed, right now, on what we did and why. Extremely cool that people like Hicks and Willison can independently build tools that give people control over their own learning process; I hope tech journalists are writing this up.

Wow, we're finally actually doing it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657

People using stripe-ruby version <= 18.1, you might start running into connection issues on February 16 when Stripe starts using new root certificates for api.stripe.com. Details and a workaround if you're unable to upgrade here: github.com/stripe/strip...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Ruby and the release of Ruby 4.0, the first 32 talks from the SF Ruby Conference main stage are now live on YouTube! This includes keynotes from @marcoroth.dev, @palkan.bsky.social, and @paolino.me. We’re working on uploading the rest next week.

This was the book that really made me understand idiomatic Ruby looks like early in my career. Looking forward to reading the new edition.

The free parking crowd has limits.